- From: Chuck Houpt <chuck@habilis.net>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:50:48 -0500
- To: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jukkakk@gmail.com>
- Cc: "Richard.Mobbs" <richard.mobbs@open.ac.uk>, "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
> On Nov 22, 2022, at 3:11 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <jukkakk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Chuck Houpt (chuck@habilis.net) wrote:
>>
>> In recent versions of HTML, some elements/tags are optional and their absence won't be flagged as errors.
>>
> Recent? The <html>, </html>, <head>, </head>, <body>, and </body> tags have been optional since the dawn of HTML.
[ Apologies for muddling element and tag in my first email. ]
By "recent versions", I mean HTML5/Living as compared to HTML4 (granted, 8 years is stretching "recent"). Specifically, a missing </body> tag is an error in HTML4-strict ("BODY" not finished but document ended), but not in HTML5.X/Living-HTML.
Of course, it is also true that a missing </body> tag is allowed in HTML 2,3,4-loose as well as 5 -- so maybe 4-strict is just an aberration (but a popular aberration).
- Chuck
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